The coeducational sport is skiing; while schools have separate men's and women's squads, the NCAA awards a single national team championship.

Utah's newest varsity sport is men's lacrosse, which played its first season in 2019 (2018–19 school year).

14 players are from Utah, 8 from Arizona, 4 from California, 2 from Nevada, and 1 from Louisiana, Oregon, Idaho, and the Netherlands.

Other notable players that have gone on to play in the NBA are Delon Wright, Andre Miller, Keith Van Horn, Michael Doleac, Danny Vranes and Tom Chambers.

Wataru Misaka — who led the Utes to the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships — later became the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball when he joined the New York Knicks, just months after Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jerry Chambers was named MVP of the 1966 Final Four in which Utah lost to eventual champion Texas Western (UTEP) and the legendary coach Don Haskins.

The Utes have gone to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship tournament 15 times, and former coach Elaine Elliott has a 536–212 record (.717).

After getting by Middle Tennessee in the first round of the 2006 Women's NCAA Tournament, Utah surprised the 4th seeded Arizona State Sun Devils to advance to the Sweet 16 for only the second time in school history.

There the Utes faced 8th seeded Boston College and gutted out a 3-point win, advancing to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history.

Making the regional finals, Utah became the first women's team in Mountain West Conference history to ever do so.

After a twenty-eight year stretch of not playing in a bowl game, Utah football experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s under head coach Ron McBride.

The Utes played the Big East Conference champion Pittsburgh Panthers in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, winning 35–7.

During the 2008 season, Utah again went undefeated with a 13–0 record, which included a 31–17 victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.

[5][6] Notable players to have played for the University of Utah are Pro Football Hall of Fame member Larry Wilson, Super Bowl Head Coach Winner George Seifert, Manny Fernandez, Marv Bateman, Norm Chow, Scott Mitchell, Kevin Dyson, Andre Dyson, Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala, Luther Elliss, Jamal Anderson, Mike Anderson, Bob Trumpy, Roy Jefferson, Paul Soliai, Barry Sims, Sione Pouha, Koa Misi, Chris Kemoeatu, Maake Kemoeatu, Jonathan Fanene, Jordan Gross of the Carolina Panthers, Steve Smith Sr. with the Panthers and Baltimore Ravens, Alex Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Football Team, Sean Smith of the Oakland Raiders, Robert Johnson of the Tennessee Titans and Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers.

The Utes won the 2006 women's gymnastics attendance title, averaging 12,747 spectators to their six regular season home meets.

Utah has twice played in the Collegiate Rugby Championship, a tournament broadcast live on NBC every year.

Utah won the inaugural 2010 tournament by defeating Cal in sudden death extra time.

[20] Utah finished second to Cal at the 2012 PAC 7s tournament, narrowly missing out on qualification to the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships.

It simultaneously discontinued using others, including "Redskins" as the term is often used as an ethnic slur and is considered offensive to Native Americans.

During the 1980s a horseman known as the Crimson Warrior would ride onto the field before home football games and plant a lance into a bale of hay.

Most notably, in 1984, a University of Utah vice president proposed changing the lyrics “Who am I, sir?

On April 22, 2014, members of the ASUU voted to push for changes to specific portions of the song's lyrics.

In July 2014 university President David Pershing announced a compromise, highlighting optional alternate lyrics in the official, published fight song.